The skulls at Shimao foreshadowed the massive human sacrifice that became what Li calls “a defining attribute of Shang civilization” many centuries later (from around 1600 to 1046 B.C.) before ...

Christians understand that human history involves nuance. Indeed, it cannot be otherwise, for we are all wretched sinners in need of salvation. Wokeness, on the other hand, demands oversimplification ...

Yet the Romans had double standards; although human sacrifice had ended in Rome a century earlier, gladiatorial games and feeding people to lions were regular sport, whilst many thousands of ...

Here’s how it works. Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient Mesopotamia.

It is one of the thousands of ancient mysteries that, at this late hour in human history, we will probably never be able to satisfactorily solve. * Originally published in 2011. Updated in 2024.

Leer en español. Evidence for the largest single incident of mass child sacrifice in the Americas— and likely in world history—has been discovered on Peru's northern coast, archaeologists ...

There’s nothing new about the idea. Indeed, the history of public human sacrifice for political purposes runs all the way back to ancient history in the Americas.

Europe's prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have practiced human sacrifice, a new study claims. Investigating a collection of graves from the Upper Paleolithic (about 26,000 to 8,000 BC ...